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by notauser 18y ago
Hmm, not sure about that. Taking a arbritrary threshold of $500k a year, I have friends who earn that on boards of FTSE250 companies - there are maybe 2,500 of those jobs just in the UK (10 per company). At the top end exec compensation hit
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by notauser 18y ago
Thank you for posting this, it was well worth a read. While few of us can manage to be as dedicated to an ideal as RMS is, having an icon who is genuinely committed around helps keep us moving in the right direction. Certainly the web start
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by notauser 18y ago
In the end a company is just another system and working out how to make it do what you want can be just as fun as programming a computer to do what you want :)
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by notauser 18y ago
Rubbish (with one caveat). It is certainly possible to make change happen, even in huge companies. The caveat - you have to do it the right way, and make the most of your advantages. (Being a new graduate or studying something work related,
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by notauser 18y ago
A nice one in the center of the city, yes. Not so nice, or not so central, and it can go down as low as $1k/mo. The most expensive one I looked at was 350gbp for a room ($700/week - $3k a month) but that place had it's own pool, which is pr
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by notauser 18y ago
No kidding. A lawyer two years out of school will earn $128k in London, compared to an engineer two years out who will be on closer to $80k. With rent running at $2k+ a month for a double room in a shared house the difference is pretty sign
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by notauser 18y ago
I played it for quite a while, which is really unusual for me (I generally get bored of a game after about 20 minutes.) There were a few factors for getting it: - My friends were going to play it. So I added my pre-order to the list. - It w
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BBC show on the financial aspects of running your own business(bbc.co.uk)
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by notauser 18y ago
This is probably balanced out by people in hot places who have to expend extra energy on air conditioning.
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by notauser 18y ago
These small savings do matter, because they are low hanging fruit. Convincing people to turn a television off all the way (or better yet, making it automatic) has no downside with respect to quality of life. Not taking a bath on the other h
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by notauser 18y ago
Even if spam never saw a financial return, there would still be spam. A lot of spam is purchased as a 'marketing service' by fools who _think_ spam works, who make a payment to a third party to spam on their behalf. As the failure happens a
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by notauser 18y ago
Obviously a lot of these posts are the result of recent Yahoo fights - especially the poison pill one. I have some sympathy for what he suggests (company board members should always fear for their lives... errr... jobs) but it is necessary
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by notauser 18y ago
One interesting compiler bug later and your comment could end up in an error message. Anyway I would only swear when I'm at home with a beer in my hand, so I only put swearwords in my code when I'm working at home with a beer in my hand ;)
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by notauser 18y ago
I don't want to get junk e-mail from _anyone_. I always uncheck any preference boxes and it drives me wild when companies ignore that. Amazon seems to be a good citizen, but Expansys, AoC, Waitrose and a few others are persistant offenders.
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by notauser 18y ago
I downvote for factual errors (such as 'Symbian is open source') because a high vote count implies that the comment is correct.
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by notauser 18y ago
Symbian is closed source (and, as you say very popular and very good). The open source Nokia is looking to adopt is Linux, already seen on the N810. Nokia seems to be making the move to cut development costs. Nokia also doesn't just sell ph
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by notauser 18y ago
Kludge after kludge is how you produce good software! I have worked on flight control systems that encompass 20+ years of iterative development, with no roadmap and no feature plan more than 18 months into the future. (So about 30~ iteratio
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by notauser 18y ago
By developing for the iPhone you are mostly restricting your market to North America. It is available overseas but not very popular for a number of reasons. This may not bother you but it is something to consider. By comparison Blackberry s
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by notauser 18y ago
Adding a co-founder may not speed things up, it is just as likley to slow things down, as good co-founders are hard to find. That said the time to do it is when the rate of progress dropping won't bankrupt you, and you have a chance to reco
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by notauser 18y ago
Nope, just took too many stastics classes I guess :)
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by notauser 18y ago
The assessment of fund management suffers from the usual problem - there are bound to be some people who really are just that lucky. For simplicity if you look at just the last two years and four fund managers, statistically one of them wil
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by notauser 18y ago
Then why not submit the direct PDF link in the first place? Or is it a 'helpful' news.yc antifeature? (PDF readers actually load faster than scribed, provided you aren't using the vanilla Adobe one with all the plugins turned on.)
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by notauser 18y ago
What reduced cost of failure? Failing with a start up is when you get some stability back as you go and get a regular job. The US is where there is more incentive to quit early as it will restore your health insurance and other benefits. In
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by notauser 18y ago
Amazingly the nicest busses I have been on are in Mexico (Tampico/Monterrey). They have huge comfortable brand new Merc busses available, with fully reclining seats. No wifi yet but some busses have plane-style entertainment systems. The co
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by notauser 18y ago
Thats partly because bus fare (at least here in the north) has been going up just as fast as petrol prices. As my current place pays overtime I would need the cost of petrol to go up to 5gbp/litre (~$40/gal) without an increase in the cost
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by notauser 18y ago
All of those systems apart from IM follow the same route to success - a large number of independent systems with a common interchange format that makes it possible to create the illusion of integration. Every mail server, every news server,
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by notauser 18y ago
Summary: You should stop listening to your customers if there is a new, bigger market of new customers out there who want something different from the customers you already have. This is especially true if your current customers are going t
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by notauser 18y ago
My resume got noticed at the last place I applied to because the guy who was making up the short list had already been talked to by two people who could recommend me.
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by notauser 18y ago
Would you rather they optimize for ram, which is cheap, or for time, which is expensive? Assuming an hourly rate of $30 and 100 web pages visited a day it would take approx ~40 days to recover the cost of 1gb of ram if loading speed was inc
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by notauser 18y ago
You frequently don't get what you pay for - there is very little correlation between price and quality. Take Drupal for example - cheap AND good. Compare with our new Mega Corp CMS which had a 7 figure price tag and a work flow so atrocious

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